Thursday, April 28, 2016

Outside of the expected neocon and RNC front operations, Ted Cruz's
selection of Carly Fiorina as his would be VP pick is seen by most
observers as either desperate pandering, naked desperation or an open
abandonment of numerous of his previously stated positions and alleged
principles. In reality it's probably all three along with a pay back for
his having dumped half a million dollars into her campaign earlier. I
strongly doubt it will much impress the voters of Indiana and likely
cheeses off both Kasich and Rubio.

All that said it has also opened the floodgates of speculation on who
Trump might select. Some of it so absurd as to be laughable. Most
notably FOX News correspondent Carl Cameron's statement last night that
Trump has to pick a woman because his ego is two big, he's to much of an
alpha male to share the political spotlight with with another male.
These so called experts have been out flanked and made to look like
fools by Trump since the day he announced. I don't see that pattern
changing any time soon.

ABC News has updated its estimate of the current delegate totals in
the Republican presidential primary, putting Donald Trump closer to the
nomination than first thought after Tuesday night’s sweep of five
states.

Reporter Ryan Struyk said on Twitter that the new numbers came from
calls placed to every unbound delegate to gauge their support for Trump
plus rivals Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Kasich.

Brand new @ABC count updated after our team called every unbound delegate:

To many the abolition crusade recalls brave Northerners standing tall for the liberty of African slaves and the Rights of Man. Upon closer inspection the North was a region unfriendly to both the black man and abolitionists – the latter evident with the mob-murder of Elijah Lovejoy in antebellum Illinois. Daniel Webster saw these sectionalists for what they were, and what evil they might accomplish.Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

The South Was the Conservative Party

“The story of Daniel Webster and his great speech in 1850 has been told at some length because it is instructive. The historians who have set themselves to the task of upholding the idea that it was the aggressiveness of the South, during the controversy over slavery, and not that of the North, that brought on secession and war, could not make good their contention while Daniel Webster and his speech for “the Constitution and Union” stood in their way. They, therefore, wrote the great statesman “down and out” as they conceived.

But Webster and that speech still stand as beacon lights in the history of that crusade. The attack came from the North. The South, standing for its constitutional rights in the Union, was the conservative party. Southern leaders, it is true, were, during the controversy over slavery, often aggressive, but they were on the defensive—aggressive, just as Lee was when he made his campaign into Pennsylvania for the purpose of stopping the invasion of his own land.

Mr. Webster in his great speech for “the Constitution and the Union,” as became a great statesman, pleading for conciliation, measured the terms in which he condemned “personal liberty” laws and Abolitionism. But afterward, irritated by the attacks made upon him, he naturally spoke out more emphatically.

McMaster quotes several expressions from his speeches and letters replying to these assaults, and says: “His hatred of Abolitionists and Free-Soilers grew stronger and stronger. To him these men were a “band of sectionalists, narrow of mind, wanting in patriotism, without a spark of national feeling, and quite ready to see the Union go to pieces if heir own selfish ends were gained.” Such, if this was a fair summing up of his views, was Webster’s final opinion of those who were carrying on the great anti-slavery crusade.”

In light of the many complaints filed against the Arnold Law Firm, attorneys for Ammon Bundy, over their method of raising funds
to pay for a legal defense against a government back by hundreds of
attorneys and millions of dollars, perhaps there is another side to this
story that needs to be looked at.
Shawna Cox had the wherewithal to begin recording the events, from
the first stop to the murder of LaVoy Finicum. In so doing, she
recorded a moment of history that cannot be duplicated.

We all know that if you are in a position to have exclusive footage
of an event of such magnitude, there is some value, to some news
agencies, for exclusive use of such footage. How often have you seen
“Exclusive to XYZ News”, or something similar? Well, it would not be
“exclusive” if it were freely put out in the public domain, for the use
of all.

I contacted a number of news agencies (in each instance, I agreed not
to disclose the name of those willing to aid me in an effort to
determine what value that particular footage might have. It was
predicated on the footage being exclusive and that its availability
would have been shortly after the event, while it was still front-page news.

The results were that some would not have paid, as per their policy,
for any such footage, to an estimate of that value being perhaps as much
as $300,000.00. Interestingly, the higher numbers came from the
established, checkout stand, publications. Those that rely on strange
births, flying saucers, and other such attractions, intended to
generate spontaneous purchases. But, that does not change the color of
the money that such footage might bring to the owner of the intellectual property.

When Salisbury University police discovered that someone drew a stick
figure hung by a noose on the school library’s whiteboard, they
launched a hate crime investigation.

But after realizing it was two black students who drew the picture –
which showed the hangman crying, included the N-word with an arrow
pointed at the stick figure, as well as the message #whitepower – they
decided not to press criminal charges, The Delmarva Daily Times reports.

English Associate Professor James King told The SU Flyer
that the school’s investigation identified the students responsible for
the racist drawing, which was originally discovered April 10.

“I confirm two students have been identified,” he said, “and are both African American.”

Sex crimes revolving around men in women’s facilities are becoming commonplace
as liberals continue to push their anti-traditional values campaign
onto the rest of us, but this fact doesn’t seem to be slowing the
liberal march towards cultural insanity.

In the wake of a federal appeals courts ruling that a school must
allow a girl to use the boys’ bathroom, LGBT advocacy groups are now
demanding that the Obama administration federally mandate the same for
all K-12 public schools across the nation.